Friday, 8 April 2016

Support for a dispute in National Museums Wales

We are writing to you ask for your support for a dispute in National Museums Wales that has now been going on for over two years in protest against cutting weekend and bank-holiday payments.

Museum staff work weekends and bank holidays so the public can enjoy our museums and galleries. But they should get a just reward for having to give up time with their own families, and as very low paid workers they rely on these payments to survive financially.

PCS members are escalating their strike action and will now strike for the next four weekends.

Your support helped us succeed at National Gallery in London so we hope we can all do the same at National Museums Wales! Low paid workers need urgent support to keep fighting so if you can please donate to their strike fund and help raise backing for their campaign.

Despite intervention from the Welsh government to get talks with the Museum back on, these were unsuccessful as management were not willing to make any changes or put any new offer on the table. National Museum Wales now claim they are facing a 4.7% cut in annual grant in aid from the Welsh Government and cannot afford weekend payments.

PCS believe that the lowest-paid should not have to bear the brunt of budget cuts.

PCS has therefore called rolling strike action across the museums in Wales, starting on Saturday, 9 April and going on until 1 May.

Urgent Appeal for Support

Join over 12000 in signing the petition “Fair Pay at National Museums Wales

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